«What is the Worldwound?»

Well, that's an unexpected question. «The Worldwound is a large planar tear between the Abyss and the Material Plane, located in the former nation of Sarkoris.» No response. Do they just want her to keep talking? It's not like this is secret. Pretty much the opposite, really.

«In northern Avistan.» Well, whatever, it's a safe topic to talk about.

«Nearish to the northern pole of Golarion.»

«Golarion, you know, the planet Rovagug is imprisoned in.»

«Rovagug is a powerful god who wishes to devour everything, whom the rest of the gods worked together to bind?»

What is up with this team's interrogation script, anyway? She'd heard Good people were too squeamish and picky to do decent interrogations but these people aren't even trying.

«Tell us about the gods.»

This question seems more like a trap. «What about them?»

«Tell us what a god is.»

«Gods are being of incredible power and intelligence, capable of granting Their followers divine spells. They focus on particular domains, typically live in an Outer Sphere plane, and are typically strongly aligned. For example, Lord Asmodeus lives in Hell, has the domains of tyranny, slavery, pride and contracts, and is Lawful Evil.»

«What other gods are you most familiar with?»

«Abadar, god of trade and cities, Lawful Neutral. Calistria, goddess of lust and revenge, Chaotic Neutral. Cayden Cailean, god of drunks, Chaotic Good. Desna, goddess of dreams, Chaotic Good. Erastil, god of farming, Lawful Good. Gorum, god of battle, Chaotic Neutral. Gozreh, god of nature, Neutral. Iomedae, goddess of destroying Evil, Lawful Good. Irori, god of monks, Lawful Neutral. Lamashtu, goddess of madness and monsters, Chaotic Evil. Nethys, god of magic, Neutral. Norgorber, god of crime, Neutral Evil. Pharasma, goddess of birth and death, Neutral. Rovagug, previously mentioned, Chaotic Evil. Sarenrae, goddess of the sun and healing, Neutral Good. Shelyn, goddess of beauty, Neutral Good. Torag, god of metal and dwarves, Lawful Good. Urgathoa, goddess of undeath, Neutral Evil. Zon-Kuthon, god of pointless suffering, Lawful Evil.»

A pause.

«How did you get here?»

This is probably the best time for a while to see how her captors respond to a bit of uncooperativeness. «By accident.»

«Where were you trying to go?»

Apparently they just aren't going to ask for more details on that. «I wasn't.»

«So you're saying you weren't trying to go anywhere, correct?»

«Correct.»

«Would my captors care to tell me anything of their identity or goals? Or why I'm not breathing?»

«You can't breathe the air here. We think you fell unconscious earlier from trying.»

Another pause.

«Which should have had noticeable symptoms before full unconsciousness that a sensible combatant who wanted to not be eaten by daemons would have given their co-combatants notice of. Luckily, you're alive anyway.»

If they're upset they're free to torture her. It's what you do with prisoners you're frustrated with.

«We will also tell you that our goals involve getting rid of daemons.»

Ah, the Get The Prisoner To Trust You script. Well, she doesn't plan to trust them, but the counterpart to the script is trying to get your captors to be vaguely fond of you, which shouldn't hurt. «Well, that's a pretty decent goal. Daemons are the worst, huh?»

«They're pretty awful. It'd be nice to have more capacity to prevent soul destruction.»

«Well, Lord Asmodeus has a place for everyone in Hell, at least.»

The telepath is now asking many, many questions about Pharasma, psychopomps, Abaddon, and other matters of public record.

Well, this continues to not be data she's not supposed to share, and it keeps her mind off of any possible Chelish state secrets. She can talk about matters of global public record aaaaalllll day. (Or night, whatever, apparently being too Good-aligned to torture someone doesn't mean you won't disorient them.)

The title 'Horseman' sounds vaguely familiar but she's not actually very familiar with the power structure of Abaddon. She was privileged to serve Hell by fighting demons, daemons didn't really come up much and she was accordingly not given detailed briefs. Except that Awaiting-Consumption exists. Horrible place, it'll be much better when Lord Asmodeus conquers it.

Abaddon is invading Thuvia through the House of Oblivion, but in a pretty low-key way. They'd probably appreciate foreign aid.

Pharasma sorts people into afterlives based on where they fall on the Lawful-Chaotic and Good-Evil axes, except if people sort Neutral Evil she gives them their choice of Hell or the Abyss instead of Abaddon, and the Neutral afterlife is her realm, the Boneyard, which she mostly tries to get people out of quickly by having them develop other alignments. She doesn't like it when people interfere with her sorting or make there be a lot to sort all at once. She doesn't like abortion or infanticide because babies take a long time to develop alignments. Pharasma doesn't personally preside over every single case, there's a court system.

Psychopomps, uh, work for Pharasma. That is the main notable quality about psychopomps. Presumably her court judges are psychopomps, and such. Sometimes they interfere with undeath.

Pharasma isn't lawful. She leaves the psychopomps a fair amount of discretion, and her procedures are messy, and such.

Outer Sphere outsiders are immortal unless struck down in combat or such. The afterlife is ideally forever, which is why it's reasonable to pay some up-front costs in unpleasantness to be better at the afterlife later. She hasn't heard of curses or diseases causing soul disintegration.

What about astronomy and calendars?

The night sky is, uh, starry and has the Godsea? Specifically, it is dark, with lots of little points of light called stars, and a glowy band, called the Godsea or the Moontail or the Sun Road or such. If Carissa were untied and could see, she could sketch it.

The Sun is very consistent and doesn't do weird things like splitting into multiple suns that she's heard of. Golarion's year length is 365 days, except it's not quite evenly divisible into days so every four years they have a leap day. The Absalom Reckoning calendar is standard and many countries including Cheliax use it. It divides the year into months of variable length ranging from 28 to 31 days. There's not really any obvious pattern to the length variations. The months do not contain a whole number of weeks. Month lengths are kind of similar to lunar cycles but not really the same.

No, she's never heard about Lord Asmodeus not liking the calendar. Why wouldn't He like the calendar. Maybe once He conquers the world, he'll want to rename the months so they're no longer named for lesser gods He defeated?? She also hasn't heard of other gods not liking the calendar.

Does Carissa know how to control illusions?